Summer ’36 has arrived on Netflix, but is the killer found by the end of the French mystery series? Find out below.
Originally titled L’Été 36, the period drama was created by Marie Deshaires and Catherine Touzet, and directed by Fred Garson.
Set in Nice in 1936, the series follows four women from different backgrounds who become entangled in a murder investigation at the luxurious Riviera Hotel.
The victim is Adrien Jacquart, a powerful prosecutor whose death exposes long-buried secrets involving the hotel’s guests, staff and the wider class tensions of the era.
The cast includes Julie de Bona as Blanche, Sofia Essaïdi as Eugénie, Nolwenn Leroy as Giulia, Constance Gay as Léonie, Miou-Miou as Marthe, François-Xavier Demaison as Raven, Pascal Elbé as Raoul and Arnaud Binard as Adrien.
Summer ’36 arrived on Netflix on July 1, with all six episodes available to stream now.
Check out the trailer below.
The ending of Summer ’36 explained: is the killer found?
At the end of Summer ’36, Raoul Delaunay is arrested for the murders of Adrien Jacquart and Edgar Girault – but he is not the real killer in either case.
The finale reveals that Adrien was actually killed by Anne-Marie Meunier-Dauphin, whose connection to him dates back years. She had once had a child who was later killed in a road accident caused by Adrien.
Adrien left the boy to die in order to protect his own reputation. When Anne-Marie confronts him at the hotel, he shows no real remorse and instead tries to buy her silence. Overcome by grief and anger, she stabs him with a letter opener.
Edgar, the manager of the Riviera Hotel, is killed because he knows the truth. After witnessing Anne-Marie kill Adrien, he tries to use the information against her. Anne-Marie’s sister Marthe then poisons him with arsenic to protect her.
Although Anne-Marie later attempts to confess, Raven does not accept her version of events. He realises the truth is bigger than one person and that several women have worked together to redirect the investigation.
Blanche, Eugénie, Giulia and Léonie ultimately help frame Raoul for the murders, with the character taking the fall for crimes he did not commit, while Anne-Marie and Marthe avoid arrest.
The series ends with the four central women watching fireworks together, leaving the question of justice unresolved.
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